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THE HEATHERY. 



peat in well-drained pots is required for them ; their other treatment 

 dilfers not from that of plants admitted into the Heathery. 



BOROXIA. 



This is a valuable genus, floTvering nearly all the year. Tliey are pro- 

 pagated by layers, and by ripened cuttings, and some of the more difficult 

 rooting sorts are successfully enarched upon B. alata, which strikes more 

 freely than others. Plants of these delicate habits seldom make fine 

 specimens when propagated by layers ; it is better, therefore, to endeavour 

 to originate them either fi*om cuttings or by enarching. The cuttings 

 should be taken off at a joint, planted in sand, and placed in a mode- 

 rately warm, but not hot place, and covered with a glass, which must be 

 often removed to be cleared of damp. Light, turfy, sandy peat is the 

 proper soil for them, and the greatest care must be taken that the pots l>e 

 well chained, and in after-cultm*e that they be not injured by ha\-ing too 

 much water. The treatment of the Heathery is the most proper for this 

 tine genus. 



CROWE A, 



Is also a lovely genus and fi'ee flowerer. Cuttings of the young shoots 

 strike freely when planted in sand, and left uncovered if in heat, but 

 covered with a bell glass if kept in a cool situation. 



ERIOSTEMOX. 



This is a diiScalt genus to cultivate. Imported seeds are sometimes 

 obtained, but we have found them rather difficult to vegetate. Cuttings of 

 the lialf-ripeued wood have been struck under a glass in a light sandy soil. 

 ^Mieii seeds can be obtained, they should be so^vn in the same soil the 

 plant is to be grown in. and as they sometimes remain a long time without 

 vegetating, the seed pots should not be thrown away under eighteen 

 mouiiis. Light, tiu'iy peat soil, and the general treatment of the Heathery, 

 is the best for them, taking care that they are not kept too damp. 



The phmts we have selected fi'om the natm*al order Leguminoss, viz., 



CYCLOPIA, OXYLOBirM, GASTROLOEIVM. PrLTEX_EA, AOTUS, EUTAXIA, 

 DAVIESIA. CHORIZEMA. PODOLOBIUAI. DILLWYXIA. GOMPHOLOBIU M, LIPA- 

 RIA, BOSST-EA. PLATYLOBII'M. SCOTTIA. TEMPLETOXIA. HOTEA. and LOD* 



DiGESiA. are all extremely beanrhrd. but are not by any means, if we 

 except the last, easily multiplied otiier^ise than by seeds ; all of them 

 when old enough ripen seeds in rlii; .je^Vir^ " ?eeds of most species 

 are easily procm-edfrom Ne'v IlL llaiid. v^d-.: _ them are indigenous. 



